Hoffmannanthus H.Rob., S.C.Keeley & Skvarla

Scrambling shrub. Leaves alternate, ovate, 5–10 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide; margin remotely denticulate to nearly entire, petiole slender, 7–15 mm long . Inflorescences broadly corymbiform, with branches elongate, mostly with small or insignificant bracteoles at bases; peduncles 2–30 mm long. Heads campanulate; involucre much shorter than florets at maturity; involucral bracts in 2–3 series, persistent, oblong-lanceolate, with acute to short-acuminate tips, puberulous outside, pale at base, midvein broadly greenish, percurrent at tip, lateral margins thinly membranous. Florets ca. 15 in a head, homogamous, bisexual; corollas violet to purple, with long basal tube, throat short, lobes narrowly oblong-lanceolate, with glandular dots outside. Achenes 5-angled, with some glandular dots and short setulae; pappus pale to sordid or rufous, 2 series, inner pappus of many capillary bristles that are slightly broader in distal half, outer pappus of short narrow scales.

Derivation of name: After Hoffmann, who published both of the older species names (1894, 1895).

Worldwide: A single species from Ethiopia to Angola, Malawi and Zambia.

Malawi: 1 taxon.